I would be untrue if I did not speak on how much of an issue pride is for me personally. I am completely unable to do anything on my own, including surrendering my pride and attempting to ascend in humility.
Again, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ give us the perfect example of an abandonment of pride and embodiment of humility. The God of all creation, of the universe, humbled himself and became man, to reconcile us; to save us from eternal separation of His love.
The Holy Spirit has been working in me, a lot, and praise God for His mercy. I have become more aware of my failures and shortcomings, and by His grace have been led to turn more and more in my needs to God, the cloud of witnesses (the saints in Heaven), and my brothers and sisters in Christ.
If I can just get out of the way, and do the work that I know is pleasing to Our Father; He never disappoints on delivery. If His grace can be accepted into my heart, then I can respond accordingly and appropriately.
I make sure to partake of the Holy Eucharist, because I know He is found in the blessed sacrament and I need all the medicine I can get. I need all of God I can get, and He is fully and truly present in the Eucharist.
I see how much God humbles himself to appear in the presence of bread and wine, out of love, to show us how to be humble. In such a simple example to follow. At a minimum, we should take the example of feeding each other out of love as Jesus feeds us in the blessed sacrament.
As we seek the Lord Our God and seek to humble ourselves as Jesus, who serves as the model of humility. We can draw near to Him, and faithfully be made more and more ready to love God forever.
Let’s pray for each other for humility. Humility to do the will of the one who sent Him.
